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Clean Energy Investment Languishes in The US While Bouncing Back Strongly in Europe

By Tracey de Morsella on August 11, 2009 Comments Off on Clean Energy Investment Languishes in The US While Bouncing Back Strongly in Europe African, asset finance, banking crisis, biofuel plants, carbon dioxide emissions, clean energy, economic downturn, equity issuances, Europe, green stimulus, immature technologies, investment, New Energy Finance, offshore wind, PE, private equity investment, project transactions, renewable energy, solar parks, solar thermal electricity generation, solar;, SunPower, Suntech, The Middle East, VC, venture capital, Vestas, wind farms

New Investment in clean energy worldwide rallied in the second quarter of 2009, reaching $24.4 billion, according to figures published recently by New Energy Finance. The data, which is based in actual deal and project transactions, show that during the second quarter, there was a big improvement on the first quart of 2009, when investment was just $13.3 billion. Despite this dramatic increase in investment, the investments of the second quarter were 37% below the investment amount from the same quarter last year, when the figure was $36.2 billion.

Women’s History Month: The Green Economy – An Opportunity for Women to Excel

By Tracey de Morsella on March 19, 2009 2 Comments glass ceiling, green economy, green jobs, green stimulus, pay equity, women, Women's History Month, Women’s History Month

Over the past few months, numerous articles have popped up raising the alarm bell that the stimulus package, with its emphasis on green jobs and infrastructure will short-change women. I disagree. I see it as an opportunity for women to change the playing field. Additionally, I believe that these critics have overlooked the fact that stimulus funds have been allocated for education and healthcare – both fields dominated by women.

What’s Missing From The Green Stimulus?

By Tracey de Morsella on March 16, 2009 3 Comments American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, green stimulus, OZOlab, social venture capital, sustainability, sustainable economy, Sustainable Life Media, Tamara Giltsoff

Tamara Giltsoff, managing director of OZOlab, called “The U.S. Stimulus Package: What’s Missing?”She feels that innovation got left out of the stimulus. She feels in does not address how to get to a sustainable economy nor does she feel that it addresses the unsustainable consumption that is ingrained in our way of doing business and our overall way of life. Her list of what she thinks should be done is summarized in this article.